Remapping China at the East-West Intersection, composed predominantly from back copies of Critical Arts, draws on the rich reservoir of studies that map a diverse range of research on Chinese literature, art and culture at the intersection of East-West encounters. This compilation offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese cultural studies through the lens of global dialogism and intercultural exchange. Structured into four thematic sectionsOverview, Chinese Narratives, Chinese Art, and China and New Mediathe book brings together twenty scholarly articles that collectively examine the complexities and nuances of Chinese culture in a global context.
The overview section sets the stage by discussing the scope, methodology, and perspectives of cultural studies from an interhemispherical viewpoint. It is followed by the Chinese narratives section, in which scholars critically engage with traditional Chinese narrative forms and their reception in Western contexts. The next section on Chinese art focuses on the intersection of traditional and contemporary Chinese art forms. Finally, the China and new media section addresses the impact of digital technologies on Chinese culture. Through these diverse perspectives, this book not only contributes to ongoing academic discourses but also deepens the understanding of Chinas cultural heritage and its evolving role in the global context.
This volume re-presents for an international audience a set of theories, methodologies, and studies that have been both shaped by and have themselves influenced global trends. By integrating interdisciplinary and dialogic approaches, the book offers fresh insights into the dynamic exchange and interactions between Chinese and Western cultures.
Remapping China at the East-West Intersection, composed predominantly from back copies of Critical Arts, offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese cultural studies through the lens of global dialogism and intercultural exchange.
Introduction
1. Cultural Studies in Interhemispherical Perspective.
China, Africa, Asia and Australasia
2. Existing Approaches of Cultural
Studies and Global Dialogism: A Study Beginning with the Debate around
Cultural Imperialism
3. Cultural Studies as Export Discipline and Its
Challenges
4. Thinking on the Research Methods of Dialogism in Chinese and
Western Literary Theories
5. Globalization, Divergence and Cultural
Fecundity: Seeking Harmony in Diversity through Franēois Julliens
Transcultural Reflection on China
6. A Critical Response to Western Critics
Controversial Viewpoints on Chinese Traditional Narrative and Fiction
Criticism
7. Western Theory and Historical Studies of Chinese Literary
Criticism
8. New Progression in Chinas Narratology Studies: Extensive Reform
of Western Narratology and Embryonic Construction of Chinese School of
Narratology
9. Remapping Taipei for Jameson? Rediscovering the
Indigenization, Modernity, and Postmodernity of Taipei
10. The Renewal of
Western Philosophy: On Heideggers Expropriation of Lao Tzus Thought through
Xiao Shiyi
11. Yixiang () in Contemporary Chinese Ink Installation Art
12.
Reception and Dissemination of Qiyun Shengdong in the Western Art Criticism
13. Between Calligraphic Untranslatability and Symbolic Translatability: Xu
Bings Pictographic Art
14. The Classical Chinese Gardens as a Medium:
Rethinking the Visual Transformation in Chinese Culture in the Twentieth
Century
15. Martial Dance: Stage Wushu as a Performing Art
16. Digital
Virtuality and Autopoiesis: The Transformation from World Elements of
Literature and Arts to Metaverse
17. The Insight and Limitation of
Post-Theory: The Poetics Problem of Chinese Cinema Carried by David
Bordwell
18. Tradition, Transmediality, and Modernity: Representation of the
Double in Chinese Modern Visual Culture
19. Screening China in Carnival: A
Powerful China Framed in Participatory Documentary
20. Literary Theory and
Cultural Practice of Metaverse in China
Jun Zeng, Shanghai University, China
You Wu, East China Normal University, China
Keyan G. Tomaselli, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
